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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bombycilla" data-source="post: 1603419" data-attributes="member: 72567">I suggested earlier that RSPB would not be happy about this, and clearly ( and rightly) they were not !However, part of the reasoning for this shift in policy by their partner may be that a recent RSPB survey estimated 13,000 Scottish Crossbills in Scotland and it has subsequently been dropped from their own Red List recently, which doesn't sit well for an 'endangered' species. This hardly suggests that they are scarce or even data deficient, though I personally do think more study is needed.The BOU is who we (in UK) should be concerned with regarding the classification and status of this particular 'species' and there is little chance that scotica will be demoted to subspecies by them: as has been debated on here before, a sub species of what exactly ?</blockquote>